The fix was in: a scoop confirmed

``According to other journalists' reports, the Federal Reserve voted on Monday, Nov. 28, to approve a financial bailout for Europe using our dollars. That's the same day that the stock market staged a strong rally, which turned out to be only a preliminary event to the 400-plus point surge the Dow would have two days later -- after the rest of us found out about the European bailout. Was it just a coincidence that the stock market rallied nicely on the day of the Fed vote? Or was information from that Fed's Open Market Committee leaked by someone to friends on Wall Street? Only a few people know what happened on Nov. 28. ''